2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs
Section 21a-57 - (Formerly Sec. 19-203). False labeling of product and illegal use of equipment.
(1) No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix which is falsely labeled as to the name of the manufacturer or place of manufacture, or in any other respect.
(2) No person shall misrepresent in any manner the name of the manufacturer or the place of manufacture of frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix.
(3) No person shall use or cause or permit to be used, for the purpose of preserving or holding frozen desserts, any cabinet, can, container or other equipment owned by any other person without the written consent of such owner, and all such equipment shall be labeled with the wholesale manufacturer's name and address.
(4) No person shall place any frozen dessert of one manufacturer in the cabinet, can, container or other equipment belonging to another manufacturer.
(5) No person other than the owner shall remove, erase, obliterate, cover or conceal the owner's name or any distinguishing mark or device on any cabinet, can, container or other equipment. Each wholesaler shall declare on invoices the brand name of all ice cream, frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix delivered by him to retailers, and each retailer shall retain such invoice for inspection by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection for a period of thirty days. Each package or container of ice cream or frozen dessert shall comply with all labeling requirements for food specified by the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 301, et seq., as amended by the federal Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, 21 USC 343, et seq., as from time to time amended.
(1949 Rev., S. 3920; 1949, S. 2085d; 1959, P.A. 311; 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 10-9, S. 1.)
History: 1959 acts deleted provision that package could bear only manufacturer's Connecticut license number, adding requirement for also including name and address of packer, distributor or manufacturer and replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-203 transferred to Sec. 21a-57 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 10-9 amended Subsec. (5) by replacing provision re name, address and license number of manufacturer, packer or distributor with provision requiring compliance with federal food labeling requirements, effective May 5, 2010.
